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While expressing the utmost contemI

While expressing the utmost contempt
fnr all persons having anything 10 do WIN
h,-u4, arms, Mr. Vermont was decidedly
Of the opinion that there was no good
reason Nhv persons who were entitled To
historic coats Of arms should not display
them In America as we'll rs anywhere
else,
"rhe fact is, " said he, there are very
few families that are entitled TO arms
ANYWAY. The number is much smaller
thnn is generally supposed, even by those
well read ON the subject. | do not sup
nose that there are GOO families in Amer
lea who have any title to the arms they
wear. There surely are not over 2e0 IN
New York, and not over twenty OF THESE
are Knickerbocker families. The number
of these is very small indeed, as almost
all of the early Dutch settlers came from
liz ere no.
irnobilis. as thcy are called III heraldry
that is. not entitled to wear arms.
'lIow large IA proportion Of the coats OF
arms that We see on coach panels, then,
are genuine." asked the reporter.
"Not over per cent, - replied AR.
Vermont .and | doubt if there are that.
All The others are bogus. do not mean
that they are all made up out of whole
cloth. hut most of them are well known
coats. which the persons who wear them
have no right to whatever. In many IN
stances the people are perfectly honest III
their belief that they belong to them.
Sometimes their father assumed them
and bore them SO long that he began to
think he owned them, and their children
haven't II doubt that he did. New York
Sun.
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Harper's Magazine.

There are fty-nine pages of fiction in HAnr-
ER's MAGAZINE for January, all the best kind.
Contained therein are: "Virginia of Virginia, "
a touching story of life in the Old Dominion,
vigorously told by Amelie Rives; and the first
part of William Blacks "In Far Lochaber."
"Virginia" runs through forty-seyen pages, and
is not continued story. The illustrations in it
are capital, especially ''On the Top of Peter S
Mountain" drawn by A. b. Frost. Other con-
tributors are, William Dean Howells, Arch dea-
con Farrar, Henry Watterson,, the Rev. DR..
Warner, ]. S. Farrer, NJ. +. NJ. Davis, Nora
Perry, and |. W. Avery. Harpcrs K Brothers
large corps of careful engrayers and artists con-
tribute excellent specimens of their handiwork
for this number. The full-page cut by George
Du Maurier illustrates the "March of Progress"
in way that every one, even a dyspeptc, can
is cleverly described by the studies of W. II.
Hydes clever pencil
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A MAlDeN's MESSAGE.

o wind that wandcrest DER hill and vale and sea,
Blow round the hame where h. sleeps peacefully,
And breathe upon his brow loving kiss from me
o golden maiden moon, so calm and pure and
bright,
Shed round and DER him thy soft, tender streams
of light;
Tell him how well love him-tell him SO to-
night.
o stars all sllvery bright, set on that deep still
blue,
stars that are watching DER us both the long
night through,
Tell him my love for him Is pure like you-and
true.
o great grand, snow whito clouds, slowly drift
ing DER the sky,
Bear to his heart "a message as ye pass by.
Tell him my love would teach him how TO door
die.
O great, wide sea, on which the night winds blow,
Sing in his ears thy music calm and low,
Sing to his heart love him, sing it soft and low
@ tiny. laughing ripples dancing on the shore,
o mighty ocean waves, laundering your ceaseiess
roar.
Tell him love him so well could not love him
more,
O moon and stars, o clouds and deep blue, sunny
sea,
And restless. wandering winds, bear him these
words froiu me:
My own dear love, love thee "ell-and con
stantly.h
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THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE for December is
in all its features Christmas number. The
leading article, "Christ-I Ideals in American
Art" by VIM. il. Ingersoll, gives occasion for
the frontispiece, THE Boy Christ Disputing
Frank Moss and "A sculptured "IIead OF Christ, y
by Launt Thompson, is reproduced in line en-
craving on the cover.
"Christmas in the Grand Army" is the story
told by one of the surviving members of soci-
ETY. founded among our soldiers during the war
Salmon fishing in this Cascapedia river is de-
scribed in an illustrated article. Natural gas is
the subject of another illustrated article. Edgar
Fawcett's story is continued.
An interview with Walt Whitman, and an
ancient version of the love story of Miles Stand
ish will interest literary readers there are some
finished stories, a discussion Of new books by
Julian Hawthorne, and paper on Home Deco
rations, by Jenny June. $500 year.-Ameri-
can Magazine Co., N
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MYSTERIES OF THE PAST.

What Might he Accomplished with Limit
less Powers of Vision and Locomotion.
Some years ago a pamphlet was pub
lished by some anonymous author which
contained some very noticeable specula-
tionr which may be mentioned in connec-
ton with the heaven of Figuer. Starting
ont with the announcement OF the fact
that light requires time in its passage
from point to point, he concludes that we
do not see, for instance, the sun as 1t is,
but as it was eight minutes before. The
sun might be annhilated and we would
still see it for eight minutes after the &C.
currence OF the catastrophe. The time
required by the passage of ray OF light
between Uranus and the earth is two and
half hours; hence what is occurring on
either planet would not be visible to the
other until two hours and half after it
had taken place. A resident OF Vega, il
he had the vision strong enough to see
what is happening on the earth, would
only see things after twelve years had
elapsed With these premises the writer
then proceeds to say:
Surprising it to be possible that man
could move from point to point without
any employment OF time, and provided
with telescope which would penetrate
any distance and render all things visible,
1t would be entirely possible to recall
every event in history, and to look on it
at the very moment Of its occurrence. If,
for instance, we wished to recall Luther,
and see HIM before the councA of Worms,
we must transport ourselves in second
20 fixed star, from which the light re-
quires about 300 years Tor so much more
or less in order to touch the earth. Thence
the earth will appear in the same state,
and with the same persons moving on it,
as it actually was at the time of the
reformation.
LET us imagine the traveller with In
finite powers of vision in Il star of the
twelfth magnitude. He would see the
earth as il was in the time of Abraham.
Let US further imagine him moving for
ward in the direction Of the earth with
such speed that in an hour he comes to us
within distance of one hundred millions
Of miles, being then as near us as the sun
is, whence the sun Is seen rs it was eight
minutes before, and then We have this:
Before the eye of the observer the entire
history of the world from the time Of
Abraham to the present day passes by in
an hour
This is labor which Is quite within
the power of tho supcrhuman spirit con
ceivcd by Figuer With limitless vision,
and the power to move through space at
will, he can at any instant become a
witness OF any event which has ever oc-
Cured in the universe, The soul curious
as to the mysteries of tbs past can thus
satisfy himself on every point. Under
such an inspection there is no phase Of
national or individual past that cannot
| be re-eXamincd. -"Poliuton in Chicago
Times
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The National Convention.

chicago has been selected as the place
for holding the Republican National Con-
vention, and June 10Th the date Fixed up
on. There were two ballots taken by the
National committee in regard to the
place, Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Omaha
being anxious to secure it, The meeting
OF the committee was held at Washing
ton, ID. c. and was WE'LL attended, every
state and every territory but two, being
represented. There were also a large
number of prominent republicans present,
and general feeling of confidence in the
result of the next national contest pre-
vailed.
1t is evident that the issue upon which
the battle of 1888 is to be fought are the
industrial interests of the country. The
two parties, now that the President has
announced his position, occupy grounds
sharply antagonistic, and thus the issues
OF the impending campaign will be more
clearly defined than in former years.
The calling of the Republican National
convention June 10Th will make it nee
essary to hold the Republican State conven-
ton as early as the middle of May, in or
der to comply with the requirements that
delegates must be elected at least 80 DAYS
prior to the meeting of the National con.
yention.
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REAL ESTATE TRANsFERs.-The follow.
ing are the real estate transfers which
have been recorded In our county the
past week;
Canaan-Sarah f. Brown to Fred A.
Towle, $3.50. Greenvile f. Towle et
al. to William II Pushor. $3.50. Albert
L. Towle ct al to Nancy Harris. $500.
Pittstleld-James F. Cannon ct al. to
George Parks. Sl,l5O.
st. Albans-Elias A. Mower to Albert
Films. $500. Preston Briggs to w. IL.
Bailey. 800
Mathematician II. Blackwell to S.
B. Withee. $25.
MISUNDERSTANDING G. Tilton to
George Smith. 1925. Charles IL. En-
mons to Dodlin Granite Co. 81 600.
William IL. Taylor ct al. to Dodlin
Granite Co. 800. Stephen w. Reed ct
al to Isaac S. Bangs. $1,000. Edwin
C. Tracy to Olive A Smith. $3.50.
Cornville-Mary A. Piper to Albert M.
Piper. $500, John III. Doble to Samuel
N. Doble. $l,40O.
New Portland-Wm. Parsons to James
F. Collins. $780, Frank CHG. Vile to
Hannah S. Smith. $1,000. Hiram Pease
to Laura Hutchings. 500.
rdirneiu-ienry freOle to Horace
Puington ct at. 800. Horace Puington
to Francis Nadau. 500.
Cambridge-A. p. Leavitt to William
X. Drew. $500.
Highland Plantation-Almira j. Parsons
to Eliga E. Howard. $500.
Embden-Los w. Ball to John r.
Viles. $500. John II. Viles to E. Z.
Viles. $780,
Starks-Ienry Doyen to Roselinda
Emery. $1,000.
Hartland-James NJ. Rowell to George
Robbins. $Sl25.
Palmyra-Mamley B. Lowe to Susan J.
Maston, $400.
Smithfeld-George II. Taylor to bod
lin Granite Co. 800.
Athens-W Wentworth Goodridge to
James E. Chapman. $1,000.
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II am quite disappointed, -" remarked n
doleful fellow yesterday. II tried an ex-
pertinent and it failed miserabiy,n
'rrlcd to shave yoursefi' suggested
the reporter.
NAV. Tried to send letter around
the world. | mailed IL In July, via San
Francisco to Yokohama thence Egypt,
and so on to England, New York and
finally to Philadelphia. clappcd on about
a dollars worth of stamps, and it was n
dead loss. The letter hasn't arrived, and
don't want to get 1t now. One hundred
and three daysl I'm Disguised. "
Never mind, said the reporter, ''you
won't see it. Your letter never got any
further than San Francisco"
"What'"
OTIS fact. In the United States Pos
tai Guide for this year you will see that
letters or postal cards addressed to go
round the world are enumerated as pro-
hibited articles"
"Confound II! p
keep cool, said the reporter, sooth-
ingly. 1.-THE practice got TO be such an
internal nuisance that 1t had to be stopped.
If you had put on ten dollars worth of
stamps they would all have been cancelled
at this office, and would not carry the let
ter beyond its first Destination
Then the crank moaned. -Philadelphia
Call
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-21

The special meeting of the Pomona,
held at Grange Hall, Monday evening was
in every respect large and interesting
meeting. The hall was full, a large num-
Der of visiting patrons from all over the
State being in attendance. Eighteen
fourth degree members were given the
work Of the fifth degree in form and adj
mitted into the Pomona. State Chaplain,
Rev o. j. Hancock spoke feelingly and
eloquently, and gave the greetings of
York county; J. w. Lang, of Sagadahoc !;
S. b. Gunnison, of Cumberland; M. F.
Norton, of Hancock; State Lecturer, ID.
II. Thing, of Kennebec; B. f. Carter, of
York; W. II. Gain, of Waldo S. II. Hig-
gins, of Penobscot; S. S. Smith, of Ok
ford; A. II. Whitmore, of Hancock; S.
F. Emerson returned the greetings of
So nerset.
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SUMNER MOONLIGHT.

/ love midsummer sunsets, rolled
Down the rich west in waves OF gold,
With blazing crests OF billowy hre;
But when these crimson foods retire
In noiseless ebb, low surring, grand,
By pensive twilight's pickering strand,
In gentle mood love to mark
The slow gradations Of the dark;
TIL 10. from Orient's midst withdraw,
Hail to the moons Respondent dawn,
On dusky vale and haunted plain
Her effiuence falls like balmy rain;
Gaunt CULTS Of shadow own her might,
She bathes tho rescued verdi in light,
So that, albeit my summers day
Erewhile did breathe Its life away,
Methinks. whate'er its hours had won
OF beauty born from shade and sun,
Ha-n not perchance so wholly died,
But DER the moonlight's silvery tide
Comes back, sublimed and purified.
Paul Hamilton Hayna
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A PRECIOUS THOUGHT.

have thought, but cannot give 1t specchi
-Tis like material with which 10 make
An instrument Of song, which, tho reach
The music buried there, | cannot break
Its attitude of silence with word,
And so 1t lies, unspoten and unheard.
It's like flower growing in the gloom,
And when eager search but cannot find,
But may freely breathe the sweet perfume
And let its fragrance penetrate my mind
1t may be but .hs promise OF thought
Which God, in mercy to my soul, has brought
Lest be too content with lower things,
And |, In cropping for expression, may
Unconscously he spreading out my wings
For flight unto yon heavens mount away,
For back Of all earth's shadows dot appear
The form which casts but ref - - here.
--Bess5 =. Jordan.
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MASONIC.

SOMERSET LoDGE, No. "A, + & \. M-Stated
communication Mondays preceding full
moon. Masonic Hail 50 Water Street
SOMERSET CHAPTER II. A. No. ts-Stated com
munication last Friday Of each month";
DE MoLAY CoMMANDERY, X. Meetings Ist
Tuesday of each month.
OF each month.
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Miss Emily Faithful writes thus: A
Swedish friend once told me that in
Sweden if lady cannot swim she is at
once suspected of some exceptional deli
cacy Of constitution just as we should
credit an English girl with some special
weakness il we heard she could not walk,
and she said that in almost every city
there was an excellent arrangement for
open air swimming. | should like to see
the matter taken up more keenly by our
board schools. The physical power of
poor children is terribly drained by i'm
pure air and unclean dwellings, and
scant, Ill prepared food. Bathing would
certainly prove of great advantage In the
development Of their bodies.
l remember hearing an anecdote from q
well known clergyman in the Mdlands
who has done much to promote the ply
steal as well as the moral well being OF
the poor in his district, which is worth re-
peating He always treated his choir
boys to weekly bath, and asking the
mother of an absentee the cause of his
non-appearance, she replied she had for
hidden her son to go because she could
not satisfy him with bread afterwards
sit made him so hungry" Nothing is
more invigorating to the health than
swimming
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DIRECTORY.
SOMERSET COUNTY OFFICERS,

SOMERSET COUNTY OFFICERS.
Clerk OF Csurts-L. II. Webb, Skowhegan.
County Attorney-E. +. Danforth Skowhegan.
Judge of Probatc-Turner Boswell, Scion.
Register of Probatc-S IL. Goodwin, Skowhegan.
County Commssioners-lIiram Moore, Madison
Center; A. IL. Chase, Lexington; Albert Loavitt,
Athens.
Register of Deeds-Wm. H. Emery, Skowhegan.
County Treasurer-Gco. Cushing, Skowhcgan.
Sheriff-Zenas Vaughan, Skowhegan.
Deputics-E. z. Nilcs, y. New Portland S, H.
Mosher. Pittsfed; Il. NJ. Steward, No. Arson ,
II. $. Williams, iIartand; Lyman Grant, Snlnn ];
Augustus Bradbury, Fairfield {. II. Jones,
Athens, Benz. a. Sawyer, Sulrks
1sier-John IL. Mitchell. Norridgcwoc.
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The REPORTER Is favored with a COM
munication from f. N. Brann, Editor of
the Courier News of Watertown, Dakota,
who has been visiting friends In North
Madison for few weeks, but 1t is q
tride late for this week ami our readers
vii appreciate 1t next week.
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|. o. OF O. f

CARRAnAssEr LODGE No. H-Meets Wednesday
evenings 7.jo O'Clock.
PARMENAs ENcAMPMENr No. IS-Mccts second
and fourth tuesdays of each month in Odd Fellows
hall So Water street,
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Coon TEMpLA Something's Friday evenings at
Room ), Coburn Hall.
moMENs CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNIoN-
u n. H. Hall, meetings Tuesdays at 4. p. NJ.
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The parties arrested for the Bennett
robbery were held in the Municipal court
In the sum Of $50, 900, and failing in the
sureties were committed to jail to await
the action Of the Supreme court.
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GRAND ARMY OF THE RHPuBLIc-Russell Post
no. 90, Meetings ist and Sd FRIDAYS Grand Army
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ANciENT ORDER OF UNITED NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
hegan Lodge No 20. Stated meetings I'd and 4th
Fridays, q. A. II. Hall
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MISCELLANEOUS.

MAINE VOLUNTEER MILITIA COMPANY E.
Horace ri. WestoH, Captain, Armory i4s Water st.
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Ladies Hdk1s in great variety from Bets. to $lOO
each. See our Embroidered Linen Hdkfs at 25c each.
Great Bargain in Plain White Hem Stitched Linen
H dkfs. good Hem-Sttched Hdkf for &c. good
assortment of Gents Hdkfs at low prices Big stock
of Silk Handkerchiefs
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-03
In Favor of Arbitration.

LONDON, July l3.-Sir Wflfred Law.
son presided to-day over the meeting
of the International Arbitration Asso-
citation. The sectetary's report refer
red at length to the corporation ol
similar associations in America and
expressed hope for the formation OF
a Joint commission to consider the ad-
visibility of creating an Anglo-Ame
lean arbitration tribunal.
David Dudley Field in moving ap,
proval of petition to Parliament III
favor of the creation of such n tribu-
nal as that proposed expressed hearty
sympathy with the cause. Americans
were, he said, out of conceit with war.
They had had enongh of it. Although
England paid dearly for the Geneva
arbitration the result brought more
honor to England than the greatest
military victory could have secured.
TApplause.7 There were 4,NO,O00 OF
men under arms in Europe to-day.
The cost of maintaining them IN SOL
dierly unproductiveness was fabul"us'
Beside the loss entailed by their no.
sence from industrial pursuits special
taxation was required to support them:
Nation faced nation, each armed and
afraid of the other. Was it beyond
the wit of man to form a European
compact for a simultaneous and pro-
portionate reduction of armanents
and for. the reference of whatever dis
pute might afterwards arise between
nations to arbitrators? There was no
reason why such compact should not
be made, except that each nation could
not trust his neighbor. There Were'
Mr.. Field admitted, immense obstacles
to the principles of arbitration, nut
wherever the members of the assocla.,
ton saw chance for the education OF
public opinion on the question Wher-
ever they saw a chance of applying
the principle of arbitration, they
should Increasingly work for the cause.
II am not confident" Mr.. Field said
i'm conclusion, that we will succeed
in obtaining an Anglo-American tri-
bunal, but we might have an agree
ment such as is already inserted in
some treaties that disputes respecting
the Interpretation of treaty shall be
referred to arbitration"
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The Value Of a Helpmeet.

When a man becomes widower he
soon learns what the financial worth
of his wife was TO him. When he is
compelled to hire the food cooked. the
garments made, the wishing and iron
ing done, he finds that about one hall
of his income is required to meet these
outgoes. Who saved this expense be-
fore? Let the cold fingers and the ST.
lent lips in the graveyard bear testi-
mony. The family purse should be as
accessible to the faithful wife as to the
husband. What man would consent
to become a partner in a company in
which his brother partner should alone
have control of the company's funds?
There is no one thing more degrading
and depressing to hard-working wife
than to feel that she must beg like q
tramp tor every cent she spends be-
yond her food, which as truly belongs
to her as thoug gh she earned it as do
mestic or shop girl.
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An Old Song Analysed.

You all know the old "Sing a song
of sixpence," but have you ever read
what it is meant for!
The four-and-twenty blackbirds rep
resent twenty-four hours. The bottom
of the pie is the world, while the top
crust is the sky that overarches it.
The opening of the pie is day-dawn,
when the birds begin to sing, and
surely such sight is "a dainty dish to
set before the king"
1.-THE king, who is represented as
sitting i'm his parlor counting his mon
ey, is the sun, while the gold pieces
that slip through his fingers IA he
counts them are golden sunshine.
The queen, who sits in the dark
kitchen, il the moon, aud the honey
with which she regales herself is the
moonlight.
The industrious maid, who is in the
garden at work before the king-the
sun-has risen, the day-dawn, and the
clothes she hangs out are the clouds,
while the birds which so tragically
ends the song by "nipping otf her
nose" is the hour Of sunset. So we
have the whole day, if not in nut
shell, in pie.
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| Boys Estimate of His Mother.
Work.

"My mother gets me up, builds the
fire, gets my breakfast, and sends me
off," said bright youth.
"What then?" asked the reporter.
"Then she gets my father up, and
gets his break fast. and sends him off
then gets the other children theil
breakfast and sends them to school
and then she and the baby have theil
breakfast"
"How old is the baby?"
"Oh, she's most two, but she can
walk and talk as we'll as any of u.s."
"Are you we'll paid ?"
II get 50 a week, father gets So 8
day."
"How much does your mother get p
With bewildered look the boy
said, "Mother? Why, she don't work
for anybody"
"I thought you said she worked fol
all of YOU"
ooh, yes. for all of us she does but
there amt no money in it,"